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In an attempt to save $20 million, the Department of Education followed the advice of a private consulting firm and consolidated bus routes and cut back on the number of busses. Of the 2,156 daily bus routes for kids, 116 were eliminated.
“What we’re trying to do is have bus routes where the kids need them and not to pay bus companies for routes where the kids don’t,” Mr. Bloomberg said. “But we only have a certain amount of money in this city, and if you want to make sure that your monies are well spent and that we help those we can, it requires looking at programs and seeing whether they are effective.”
We can tell you right now that it is not effective; it has only succeeded in making everyone confused. The bus routes followed an absurd logic, were late, overcrowded or just didn’t show up.
George A. Bonanno, a Manhattan professor, was advised to drop off his two kids at bus stops a mile apart even though they were going to the same school. He put them on the same bus, anyway
Another student waited at a bus stop for 40 minutes, braving freezing winds and numb feet, before calling his dad.
One bus didn’t even feel the need to show up for a news conference, attended by three councilmembers, set up by a few parents in Queens.
“I was completely baffled,” said Dr. Bonanno, adding of the new routes: “It looked as if a monkey had done it. It looked as if someone had done it randomly.”
September in January: School Bus Changes Sow Confusion [New York Times]
—Elizabeth
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